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SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Melbourne, featuring pop-up shops and other places that are so hard to find that Google doesn't even know about them yet. SHOP attempts to open your minds, hearts and wallets to the plethora of things that you can probably live without but in actuality don't want to. Clothes, jewellery, books, bikes, bags, shoes, bags that look like shoes - SHOP gives new meaning to the superficial - wait, we're confused.
Brown & Bunting
I like the idea of second-hand bookshops. All those ragged travellers from the past jammed into a musty, badly lit detention centre, awaiting rescue. New bookshops are warm and smell nice. Thing is, the books don't come cheap, and perpetual browsing just makes you feel guilty and empty.
Brown & Bunting recognise this disparity and meet us halfway.
NowNow invites you to the Box Office Book Stall
In high school I told the careers counsellor that I wanted to become a physiotherapist and I studied biology, chemistry and maths with a language thrown in to boost my ENTER score. If he could see me now: trying to import a product for which there is practically no market. Sourcing artist books, zines, journals and magazines while wrestling wildly with Excel spreadsheets and exchange rates.
YouWorkForThem
Font nerds. Ya can't live with ‘em - but where would we be without ‘em?
As much as it pains me to admit, those geeks will inherit the earth. Or at least the world-wide web from whose teet I suckle. And at the risk of fanning the flames of geekdom, let me introduce you to YouWorkForThem.
ACCA Bookshop
Taking a tape measure, determine the dimensions of your coffee table. Proceed with tape measure to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Turn left through the door towards shelves where catalogues are displayed. Note the drastically reduced sale prices. Take in hand a catalogue by Barbara Kruger.
Kanga Kanga
Tucked away above Russell Street, Kanga Kanga stocks - in their words - "Cool Asian Magazines". Visiting the store is like taking a crash course in Japanese youth culture in all its loud, fickle and furiously paced glory. From the retina-searing design of Nail Venus (a bi-monthly nail art publication) to the austere coolness of the design quarterly +81 there's something for all tastes.
Free Comic Book Day
No doubt comic books will soon snake down to the bottom of the cultural ladder again but, for now, nicely bound graphic novels are available in credible bookshops. Why would you face the lowly, unwelcoming comic store? Four words and an exclamation point: Free Comic Book Day!
Once a year, publishers pick a single issue to give away in an attempt to lure new customers into the crack-like addiction of monthly comic buying.
Mag Nation online
There's no longer any reason to be Jalouse of the Kiwis and the Melburnians, because now you can shop at mag nation online.
This is a Magazine Mecca. With over 1200 mags now available to buy at a click of a mouse, and 4000 in total set for upload in the next two months, mag nation is the Monocle of the mag retail world.
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